Barloworld Team Thread (Page 11)

Oh Mark! I am overjoyed! Congratulations!!! I have been waiting with baited breath (not quite as long as you and the wife waited, of course, but still).

I can't think of a more delightful celebration in our little group.

Team Barloworld's Problems:

Too much Smack Talk.

Too much posting on the forum.

Too little riding their bikes.

At least you've got the most pages on the forum!

Ride 21 done this morning at 5 am.

Team CSC is gonna win this by miles (or minutes or % or whatever) 

Congrats to Mark!

Jens can suck my disk - I believe MANY of his rides were "prologue" rides.  Not that there's anything wrong with that... but you can't come over here and poo on us for smack talking and not enough riding with such pathetic smack talk.  Heck yeah we have the most posts here - as in almost twice as many as any other team - because Barlo is truly a TEAM and we make sure the love is felt all around... while the rest of you are too busy hiding each others needles to give your teammate a hug after each stage.  Some free advice - those 21 rides would have made you a lot less cranky if you had put a seat on your seatpost!    (all in good fun - just wanted to be clear).

I was most pleased to find two things this morning:

1) Barlo continued to hold the lead in the BT tour through week two - YEAH WE DID!!!!  Newbie wild card cinderalla story fo' sho'... just like our real life Barlo idols.

2) Barlo is even getting some love in the Tour de France forum - check out the post by CubeFarmGopher about the positive side of this year's tour... http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=84790&posts=4#M900230

Alright, alright.

Just a bit of good old fashioned British sarcasm. I didn't mean to make anyone cry

As it was kindly pointed out. Most of my rides were just commuting to work and back. But they all count right.

Jens, you gave up that fight far too quickly.  I was actually looking forward to some back and forth, as it seems madcow has bowed out of the smack talking once faced with the indisputable fact of our superiority... c'mon there's no denying we've led the tour for two weeks now.  I'm sure there will be a whole bunch of whining and moaning in Paris about "our team had the most riders doing all 21 stages" bla bla bla, but I know what the standings say.

And I was really proud of my seat/seatpost comment...

Momentous week for me ... first group ride, first master's workout, first training ocean swim (details in log). Kudos to Dolores for splashing the way first and getting me in the big water ... I swim like a shark but am the biggest chicken ever about the cold, and she has had to patiently hear me b!tch about it for weeks.

I love this team. It is so inspiring to me to see the amazing headway everybody is making.

Wow--we are all 1 or 2 rides to the finish! LET'S GET TO PARIS FIRST!!!!! You guys are so awesome.

With the way things are going in France (no spoiler, just a general comment, but it's all over BT already), Barloworld might wind up winning a jersey or two

Just quietly... I think they have one all sewn up.....

Josh, I love you forever too . Hey, you think I'm NOT gonna hold you to that promise?

I just finished dinner and will ride to my spot of evening work instead of driving--and that should wrap it up for me.

BTW Dolores and I are doggie trainers/handlers and we work together. I am off to visit three delightful squiggly little pugs. I also have a part-time desk job working for an ahem certain cycling/fitness company. I love my life sooooo much!

Edit: actually, gonna save my last ride as my long one tomorrow ... and savor it.